barrier

Definition:
1. A structure or object that impedes free movement.
2. Any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective.
3. Anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access.

Use 'barrier' in a sentence:

• 1. A severe storm destroyed a natural barrier between the house and the lake.
• 2. She hit the last barrier and sprawled across the track.
• 3. The Popular Front failed, as expected, to pass the 5 per cent barrier.
• 4. The lowering of trade barriers has led to a free-for-all among exporters.
• 5. As long as it's impossible to produce something from nothing, costs are absolutely a barrier.
• 6. There is no reason why love shouldn't cross the age barrier.
• 7. What he tried to do was to teach a male dolphin called Bass and a female called Doris to communicate with each other across a solid barrier.
• 8. It is the greatest barrier to building a farm of their own.
• 9. He broke through the pain barrier at 25 kilometres and went on to win his first marathon.
• 10. When conditions are hot, the ostrich erects them on its back, thus increasing the thickness of the barrier between solar radiation and the skin.
• 11. If you have been avoiding the decision-making process, why not break through that barrier right here and now?
• 12. Kids were having a hard time in school just because of the language barrier.
• 13. In fact, in the early 2000s, some cities started to build barrier-free facilities for disabled people.
• 14. However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.
• 15. England's World Cup hero is determined to play through the pain barrier.
• 16. Even Hillary Clinton says that when it comes to college, "Costs won't be a barrier."
• 17. As each woman reached the barrier one of the men glanced at her papers.
• 18. To a culture which has come to take instantaneous communication for granted, as part of the very structure of civilized life, this "time barrier" may have a profound psychological impact.
• 19. As an economical and effective method, the expressway noise barrier is a primary measure to reduce traffic noise.
• 20. Twenty years ago, some barrier free facilities were built.
• 21. Many other cities are short of barrier free facilities as well.
• 22. This cell can only be an effective barrier if there's no way to get past it.
• 23. Once that protection is lost, and the integrity of the skin barrier disrupted, skin becomes dry.
• 24. It is one of seven barrier islands that, along with some mainland areas of Mississippi and Florida, make up the Gulf Islands National Seashore.
• 25. The packaging must provide an effective barrier to prevent contamination of the product.
• 26. Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us encounter.
• 27. The new work does go further than previous research and suggests that screen time should still be considered a potential barrier to young people's flourishing.
• 28. He hurdled two barriers to avoid reporters.
• 29. They are fearful that unemployment will soon break the barrier of three million.
• 30. A train plowed into the barrier at the end of the platform.
• 31. We want to promote cosmetics that appeal across the colour barrier.
• 32. Several red and white barriers marked the road at intervals of about a mile.
• 33. I broke through the poverty barrier and it was education that did it.
• 34. The barriers kept the crowd back.
• 35. Police had to erect barriers to keep crowds back.
• 36. I realized I had to surmount the language barrier.
• 37. The fans pushed against the barrier.
• 38. The Yangtze river is a natural barrier to the north-east.
• 39. They fell in love in spite of the language barrier.
• 40. Ozone is the earth's barrier against ultra-violet radiation.
• 41. Because early Earth lacked oxygen in its atmosphere, it also lacked a protective ozone barrier.
• 42. She took a step nearer to the barrier.
• 43. There was no real barrier between reality and fantasy in his mind.
• 44. The car crashed through the barrier and came to rest in a field.
• 45. Duties and taxes are the most obvious barrier to free trade.
• 46. The barriers are lethal to fish trying to swim upstream.
• 47. Steel barriers can bend and absorb the shock.
• 48. Some people experience shyness as a barrier to communication, but this can be broken down gradually.
• 49. Physical and ideological barriers had come down in Eastern Europe.
• 50. These man-made barriers will ensure a very high degree of protection.
• 51. He was one of the last of the crowd to pass through the barrier.